Employees:
11~50
Year Established:
2021
Business Type:
Trading Company
Alpha Stitches was established to revolutionize the sock manufacturing industry with innovation, premier quality, top level customer service, rapid time-to-market capabilities and committing to social and environmental responsibilities. We want to improve the service level of the whole sock manufacturing industry and inspire the manufacturers to care for every customer, every order, no matter how big or small.
It started with our founder Michael Xiao, who graduated as top of the class with a Masters' degree in Supply Chain Management from Washington University in St. Louis (USA). After graduation, he started working as a Supply Chain Software Developer at a Fortune 500 Company - World Wide Technology in St. Louis.
One day, his manager at that time, a part-time entrepreneur - starting up an eco-friendly bamboo sock brand - asked him to look for a reliable sock supplier at home during the Christmas break. Upon further inquiry, he found out that the brand was relatively small, with fewer orders. So, factories ignored the orders or even when they took the orders - they were always delayed, had quality issues in bulk productions.
Michael was moved by seeing despair and disappointment in his eyes. With his research, he found that most factories in China are still unreliable, especially for small orders, almost three decades behind where they need to be. That was the moment the idea was planted - step into sock manufacturing and revolutionize Chinese factories.
Afterward, he joined STANCE - a top sock brand - as the GM of China in 2016. The job responsibilities were to manage factories, R&D and mass production. Working with a team of world-class sock experts, he addressed a lot of technical problems in sock manufacturing. But at the same time, it made him more aware of the various chaos in the whole sock factories, and thus strengthened his desire to start a 100% trustworthy factory and take complete responsibility for every order despite the order volume.
The journey began in 2019 by acquiring a factory with over 12 years of experience. We now have employ over 60 fully dedicated professionals based in the U.S., China, India and the Philippines who put their heart and soul into every sock they help produce!
